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Herring gull (Larus argentatus) Glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) III
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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Persistent organic pollutants have negative effects on the immune system of polar bears, glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus), and northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus), and peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) have suffered eggshell thinning.
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A number of arctic marine mammal and bird species are circumpolar, and are represented by several populations and even subspecies (e.g., the bowhead whale, walrus, bearded seal, ringed seal, herring gull (Larus argentatus), glaucous gull (L. hyperboreus), and kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)).
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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Activity rhythm in High Arctic Svalbard ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus hyperboreus).
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These are mainly Iceland gulls Larus glaucoides, glaucous gulls L. hyperboreus with lesser numbers of great black-backed gulls L. marinus, kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla and guillemots Cepphus grille with great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo.
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Glaucous gulls L. hyperboreus and Kelp gulls L. dominicanus were also nested within L. argentatus, and the discovery about the Kelp gull is interesting: this species is unique to the Southern Hemisphere, and Liebers et al. (2004) concluded that it must have evolved via long-distance colonisation ‘from the same ancestral population as the Lesser black-backed gull, suggesting that its ancestors were highly migratory, as nominate Lesser black-backed gulls still are today’ (p. 895).
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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On Spitzbergen there is sometimes to be met with in the interior of the country, on the mountain slopes, a game bird, _spetsbergsripan_, the rock ptarmigan (_Lagopus hyperboreus_, Sund.).
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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_Ranunculus aquatilis, _ ii. 156; _hyperboreus_ (note), ii.
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C. hyperboreus is found in both Atlantic and Arctic Water, and
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Calanus finmarchicus, C. hyperboreus, and C. glacialis
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